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This book is a landmark in showing how industrial-organizational psychology and related fields contribute to environmental sustainability in organizations. Industrial-organizational psychology embraces a scientist/practitioner model: evidence-based best practice to solve real-world issues. The contributors to this book are experts in science and practice, demonstrating the ways in which human-organization interactions can drive change to produce environmentally beneficial outcomes. Overall, the authors address cogent issues and provide specific examples of how industrial-organizational psychology can guide interventions that support and maintain environmentally sound practices in organizations. Green Organizations can be used as a general reference for researchers, in courses on sustainable business, corporate social responsibility, ethical management practices and social entrepreneurship. The book will provide an excellent overview for anyone interested in sustainability in organizations, and will serve as a valuable guide to industrial-organizational psychology and management professionals.

Reviews

"Rarely does a book come along that serves as a catalyst and vanguard. It points us in new directions and opens our minds to possibilities unimagined. Such books generate intellectual excitement and energy. In my 40 years as an industrial/organizational (I/O) psychologist I have read very few books with such potential. Green Organizations is one of them." - From the foreword by Paul M. Muchinsky; Joseph M. Bryan Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"The Huffman and Klein volume brings a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic of environmental sustainability, making increasingly possible a realization of the green organization concept. Disciplines brought to bear in this book include human resource management, business management, technology, ethics, atmospheric sciences, and I/O, social, environment, occupational, and humanitarian psychology. Clearly, the volume broadens and enhances the areas considered by the Applied Psychology Series."- Walter C. Borman, PDRI

"One of the most pressing challenges our planet faces today is environmental sustainability in an ever-changing world that consumes more and more precious resources. I/O psychology has much to contribute in the effort to encourage behaviors at the individual and organizational levels that are environmentally friendly, and this trail-blazing book shows the way." - Wayne F. Cascio, Ph.D., The Business School University of Colorado Denver

"Every I-O psychologist should read this important volume. The wide range of authors and disciplines represented is intellectually stimulating and satisfying. Together, the volume editors and chapter authors push readers to ask important questions about their professional responsibilities while also offering a foundation upon which to begin building new scientific and practical knowledge for creating and managing environmentally sustainable organizations. The future begins here!" - Susan E. Jackson, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University

"Huffman and Klein have assembled an impressive, cross-disciplinary group of scientist-practitioners with direct experiences in the places where many of the most important decisions for future earth-dwellers are made—work organizations. Their forays into applying what we know about levers for affecting organizational change make for compelling reading for those of us interested in broader change, as well." - Robert G. Jones, Missouri State University Department of Psychology

Author Bio

Ann Hergatt Huffman is Associate Professor of Psychology and Management at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Huffman received her Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Texas A&M University in 2004. Prior to Texas A&M University, she worked as a principal investigator with the Walter Reed Army Research Institute-Europe. She was awarded the 2009 Northern Arizona University Most Promising New Scholar Award and was selected as a 2007–2008 Sloan Early Career Work-Family Scholar.

Stephanie R. Klein is the Solution Specialist at SHL in Minneapolis, where she has held a variety of roles including change management, product development, assessment and training program development, and client solutions consulting. Most recently, she led post-merger transformational change within the UK and Ireland sales organization. Her areas of professional expertise include transformational change and the ability to balance client logistics, scientific best practices, and technology capabilities to identify solutions to client business needs. Dr. Klein received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998 and 2006, respectively, following her B.A. in Psychology from Kenyon College.